The federal government just handed Google a huge win for ambitions to expand the reach of its autonomous vehicles. The U.S. government's traffic safety regulator has said it will consider Google's self-driving car a "driver" under federal law.
Google announced the dates and venue for the company's annual developer conference, Google I/O. Here are some of the projects Google could provide updates on this year.
Google's self-driving car will be hitting the road soon, as a full-blown for-profit independent company under Google's new umbrella company, Alphabet. The evolution of Google's self-driving car will take a step up in 2016, as Alphabet seeks to compete with Uber through its own self-driving version of a ride-sharing service.
Yes, the "death of car culture" has been prematurely declared so many times, only to see it's still alive and kicking, that close observers might compare the American institution to a protagonist in a comic-book movie. It keeps "dying," only to reappear in tact 30 minutes later.
The Pew Research Internet Project just released one of the most interesting reports in a while - a study of American views on the future of technology in the next 50 years. What Pew found was that most Americans are optimistic, but interestingly, a lot are skeptical about some technologies that Google happens to be working on.
